US Congress House Bill 4242 (Prior Session Legislation)

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September 26 2012 - Referred to the Subcommittee on Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions.
Pending: House Subcommittee on Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]

Ensuring Quality Health Care for All Americans Act of 2012 - Repeals the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and restores provisions of law amended by such Act or provisions. Repeals the health care provisions of the Health Care and Education and Reconciliation Act of 2010 and restores provisions of law amended by such Act's health care provisions. Revises Public Health Service Act provisions concerning health insurance coverage to require each health insurance issuer offering health insurance coverage in the group market (currently, individual or group market) in a state to accept every employer and every individual in a group (currently, every employer and every individual) in the state applying for such coverage. Prohibits a group health plan or a health insurance issuer offering group health insurance coverage from imposing: (1) any preexisting condition exclusion with respect to such plan or coverage, or (2) lifetime or annual limits. Requires dependent coverage beyond age 18 until the first of either a dependent turning 26, marrying, or no longer residing at home. Requires plans to offer catastrophic coverage and sets forth coverage requirements. Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) to make grants to States for planning for the establishment and implementation of health insurance risk adjustment mechanisms. Sets forth provisions limiting the liability of health care providers.

Ensuring Quality Health Care for All Americans Act of 2012

Rep Heck, Joseph J.

Rep Fitzpatrick, Michael G.

Date	Chamber	Action
2012-09-26	House	Referred to the Subcommittee on Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions.
2012-04-23	House	Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
2012-04-02	House	Referred to the Subcommittee Indian and Alaska Native Affairs.
2012-03-28	House	Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
2012-03-26	House	Referred to the Subcommittee on the Constitution.
2012-03-22	House	Referred to House Appropriations
2012-03-22	House	Referred to House Administration
2012-03-22	House	Referred to House Rules
2012-03-22	House	Referred to House Natural Resources
2012-03-22	House	Referred to House Judiciary
2012-03-22	House	Referred to House Education and the Workforce
2012-03-22	House	Referred to House Ways and Means
2012-03-22	House	Referred to House Energy and Commerce
2012-03-22	House	Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Ways and Means, Education and the Workforce, the Judiciary, Natural Resources, Rules, House Administration, and Appropriations, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.

Type	Source
Summary	http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d112:HN04242:@@@L&summ2=m&
Text	http://gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/BILLS-112hr4242ih/pdf/BILLS-112hr4242ih.pdf